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Peking University and PrimeBot's HIL-UMI Collects Robot Correction Data Without a Robot Arm

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A team led by Hao Dong at Peking University, working with Shanghai personal-robot maker PrimeBot, has introduced HIL-UMI, a method for post-training vision-language-action models that collects…

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